New study sheds light on how planets and stars grow
Scientists have been trying to understand more about our solar system and the way it formed for decades. For a long time, many believed that …
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Astronomers detected a star’s mysterious ‘heartbeat’ billions of light-years away
A group of astronomers at MIT and other universities have discovered a star’s “heartbeat.” The heartbeat, which is a radio signal, originated from an unknown …
Scientists discovered a strange new type of star that has them puzzled
A new study written by German astronomers outlines a new type of star we’ve never seen before. The new hot subdwarf star was discovered by …
Something mysterious is blinking near the center of our galaxy
When astronomers peer into the depths of the Milky Way galaxy, which is our home, they can see a lot of stuff going on. There …
A unique solar explosion has scientists stunned and excited
The Sun is one of the big reasons why we’re all here today. Without it, life likely wouldn’t have taken root on Earth — or, …
NASA’s trusty Hubble just got a whole new job
The Hubble Space Telescope is about to embark on its most intense investigation ever. NASA has tasked the space telescope with studying over 300 stars …
Astronomers just found a first-of-its-kind planet
Researchers have spotted a planet orbiting a white dwarf star just 80 light-years from Earth. White dwarf stars don’t typically have planets orbiting them due …
This is the first-ever image of an alien multi-planet system
Researchers at the European Southern Observatory have captured the first-ever images of a planetary system with multiple exoplanets. The system revolves around a star that …
Nearby star is getting darker, and researchers think they know why
Astronomers have observed the nearby supergiant star Betelgeuse dimming in recent months. Some have theorized that the star is about to go supernova, exploding violently …
Astronomers spotted a white dwarf star so massive, it defies explanation
A team of astronomers has spotted what they describe as an “ultra-massive” white dwarf hanging out in space at a distance of around 150 light-years …
Nobody knows what’s going on with the colossal nearby star Betelgeuse
One of the more interesting astronomy stories that came out at the tail end of 2019 was the bizarre behavior of the nearby star known …
Incredible image shows two massive stars locked in battle
Our Sun flies solo, chilling out in a relatively calm arm of the Milky Way galaxy and not causing much trouble for its stellar neighbors. …
A colossal nearby star called Betelgeuse is acting very strange, but is it going to explode?
Our Sun is the reason we’re all here today. Some day it’ll go boom, but we’ll all (hopefully) be long gone, one way or another, …
Surprising discovery suggests the Milky Way has more than one black hole
Studying a galaxy from the inside can be a tricky thing, but astronomers have still managed to learn a great deal about our own Milky …
Just try to pretend this new NASA snapshot isn’t the most incredible thing you’ve seen today
With some of the most powerful imaging tools on Earth at its disposal, NASA and its scientists have captured countless lovely images of the cosmos …
A red-hot alien world was found orbiting three stars
NASA’s TESS exoplanet-hunting satellite has already made some incredible discoveries in its first couple of years in service, but its latest find will definitely look …
Dead planets beam ‘zombie’ radio signals into space for up to a billion years, scientists say
New exoplanet discoveries have been popping up with increasing regularity in recent years thanks to technological advances that allow scientists to spot evidence of their …
Scientists spotted an incredibly old star breathing its dying breath
Age is a relative thing. With our finite (and relatively short) lifespans, humans tend to think of anything older than 100 years as being “really …
Astronomers stumble upon a new kind of star, and it’s a heavy breather
Humans don’t yet possess the technology required to visit neighboring stars, but astronomers can still learn a great deal about them just by looking. The …
Astronomers spot dozens of stars that have been evicted from their homes
We often think of stars as things that don’t move around much, but in some galaxies, that’s far from a universal truth. New observations made …
If we’re looking for aliens, we might want to take a closer look at twin stars
In the ongoing search for life outside of Earth, scientists already know that planets need to be in just the right place around their host …
Astronomers spot black hole spinning unbelievably fast as it swallows up a star
Black holes are some of the most interesting features of our universe, but they’re also not very well understood. Studying distant black holes in any …
Scientists just launched a balloon in Antarctica that will study distant stars
We’re all pretty familiar with spacecraft like the Hubble telescope giving us lovely glimpses of distant stars, but you don’t have to strap a telescope …
Astronomers spot the youngest known pulsar ever, and boy is it pretty
Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that’s not the case with Kes 75. …
Feast your eyes on the very first image ever captured of a planet being born
Planet formation isn’t exactly the kind of thing that happens in the blink of an eye. New worlds form over extremely long stretches of time, …
The universe’s hungriest black hole eats three suns per week
Scientists at the Australian National University have discovered the Universe’s fastest-growing black hole, a monster that gobbles up a mass the same size as Earth’s …
This ‘singing’ space cloud is where stars and planets are born
Long before our Sun formed it was nothing more than a bunch of material floating listlessly in a large cloud of gas, dust, and debris. …
